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The Mercy of Gods

Captive's War, Book 1

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The Mercy of Gods

By: James S. A. Corey
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
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From the Hugo Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of the Expanse, James S. A. Corey, comes the start of a monumental new space opera series.

HOW HUMANITY CAME TO THE PLANET CALLED ANJIIN IS LOST IN THE FOG OF HISTORY, BUT THAT HISTORY IS ABOUT TO END.

The Carryx—part empire, part hive—has waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy in its conflict with an ancient and deathless enemy.

When they descend on the isolated world of Anjiin, the human population is abased, slaughtered, and put in chains. The best and brightest are abducted, taken to the Carryx world-palace to join prisoners from a thousand other species.

Dafyd Alkhor, assistant to a prestigious scientist, is captured along with his team.

Even he doesn’t suspect that his peculiar insight and skills will be the key to seeing past their captors’ terrifying agenda.

Swept up in a conflict beyond his control and vaster than his imagination, Dafyd is poised to become humanity’s champion—and its betrayer.

This is where his story begins.

“No one builds a universe like James S. A. Corey. The Mercy of Gods is wilder and weirder than you can imagine, and when it ends, all you’ll want is … more.”—John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling author©2024 Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (P)2024 Recorded Books Adventure Best of 2024 First Contact Science Fiction Space Exploration Space Opera Interstellar War
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Very good start to the new series, was a great fan of the Expanse series. It's the kind if scifi found in books like the Saints of Salvation if that's what you're looking for.

Very enjoyable sci-fi

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The only problem with this is that I binged it in a very short period of time and now I’ll have to wait I don’t know how long for the next part.

Binged

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I really enjoyed this one - flawed characters, multiple view points, a bragic situation with just enough thread crossing to interweave without becoming overly complicated.

Excellent both as an opener to a series and standalone novel

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This is a slow burner but the writing is great it isn’t the expanse and for me that’s good.. it seems to have all the right building blocks for a good series

Slow but intriguing

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I think the character work was the strongest point of this book, combined with the themes of captivity. But ultimately, I didn't really connect with the story on an emotional level. I think part of that was due to the narration. Coming from Dungeon Crawler Carl, the fact that this narrator doesn't do any different voices, made it harder to follow and be immersed. The weird names didn't help either. Not sure I'll continue.

Solid character work, but didn't really connect

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